RT Book, Section
A1 Riddle, Daniel L.
A1 Stratford, Paul W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1180746137
T1 How Confident Can I Be About the Outcome Measurement on My Patient?
T2 Is This Change Real?
YR 2013
FD 2013
PB F. A. Davis Company
PP New York, NY
SN 9780803629578
LK fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180746137
RD 2024/04/19
AB Imagine  taking  a  measurement  on  a  patient  and  not  having  an  idea  about  the  extent  of  measurement  error  associated  with  the  measurement.  Would  you  be  confident  that  the  measurement  was  really  meaningful  and  would  you  use  it  for  making  important  clinical  decisions?  For  example,  let's  say  that  your  patient  was  being  treated  for  a  head  injury  and  you  were  interested  in  quantifying  the  extent  of  spasticity  in  the  patient's  upper  extremities.  Would  you  be  comfortable  using  a  spasticity  measure  that  your  colleague  recommended  but  that  you  had  never  used  or  read  about?  Without  having  a  good  idea  of  how  much  error  is  associated  with  a  measurement,  we  do  not  know  how  confident  we  can  be  in  a  measured  value  or  the  clinical  decisions  based  on  the  measurement.